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Original poster

to go to a yoga class when my daughter has covid

228 replies

Itsnotdeep · 20/12/2021 21:03

I have no symptoms. I have numerous negative lateral flow tests.

I'm interested in what other people are doing. (Btw I did a virtual class today and didn't go, but I really missed it).

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Double3xposure · 21/12/2021 08:58

I understand why going to the studio is important. There are social benefits to sport and I assume that instructors can give advice and correct movements or positions.

I just think it would be wise to forego these personal benefits for one day in order to protect others and one’s own reputation. I’m sure the OP doesn’t want to be the one who passed covid to others in the Christmas week.

Madhairday · 21/12/2021 08:59

@Sugarplumfairy65
All those who were in the shielding group who are still classed as cev got the email today from nhs

Not all CEV people got this email, I didn't and many of my shielding friends didn't. It's my understanding that the antivirals are for people on the narrowed down list that get a 4th jab - ie immunocompromised, those on chemo etc?

Sugarplumfairy65 · 21/12/2021 09:05

@Madhairday
Which is why I said "still classed as cev ". The list was updated in the spring so about half the people classed as cev during the first lockdown no longer are.

Madhairday · 21/12/2021 09:09

[quote Sugarplumfairy65]@Madhairday
Which is why I said "still classed as cev ". The list was updated in the spring so about half the people classed as cev during the first lockdown no longer are.[/quote]
Yes, the list was updated in the spring, but I was still on the list as were many more who haven't received this email. There was a new list of around 500,000 people who qualify for the 4th jab, my understanding was that it was still this list that get the antivirals, just trying to clarify as I've never been removed as far as I (and my doctors) know.

hardboiledeggs · 21/12/2021 09:18

How would your mental health cope if she does have it and you could have passed it onto someone else? Either ruining their Christmas or worse making someone really ill. It’s a couple of days till the result is back ffs.

Smileyaxolotl1 · 21/12/2021 09:42

EarringsandLipstick
It is genuinely unbelievable that someone such as yourself who has clearly done no reading on the subject and knows fuck all can talk so arrogantly to people who have actually looked into it. Maybe read something before you make rude pronouncements that show off your complete ignorance.

Alarmset · 21/12/2021 09:44

Current guidance is that you don't need to isolate, should still go to work if you can't wfh, but you should limit social contacts.

I wouldn't stay home, but I would be "careful". I dont think you can go to the class

Helpstopthepain · 21/12/2021 09:46

I think you made the right decision. Is there anything else that you can do to help your mental health while doing online classes?
Have you found anything that works for you?

Hope your Dd feels better soon and that you don’t get unwell. Flowers

HopefulProcrastinator · 21/12/2021 10:14

I think you made the right decision to stay away even if you were perfectly legal in being able to attend.

To be honest, I'm surprised the yoga studio themselves don't have clear guidelines for you to follow. My running group only meets outside but the group guidance specifically requests that any close contacts of covid cases or those awaiting PCR results stay away from the group sessions to minimise risk for everyone.

Hope your daughter is OK and you find another outlet that boosts your mental health whilst you await confirmation from the PCR.

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Itsnotdeep · 21/12/2021 10:15

I won't go this week.

But yes, I get much more of a benefit from leaving the house and being in the studio. There's little connection with the teacher, and none at all with the rest of the class through a zoom connection. And I'm still in my stressful house with my stressful life (work and family and everything else) in my house with me.

I think it's interesting because many people are saying not to go out because it's Christmas, but come January, I think people will be less careful and will be going out in situations where this week they will stay in. And yes, ridiculous to put the onus on people and their own moral compass and personal circumstances.

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Itsnotdeep · 21/12/2021 10:17

I should check what the studio's rules are too! I don't know. But they still have mats placed quite far apart, we still bring our own mats, and we still wear masks. No adjustments without sanitising! Anyway, I have a PCR booked for this afternoon.

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Siameasy · 21/12/2021 10:23

I would’ve gone yes

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 21/12/2021 10:33

If you have a negative PCR it just means you probably didn't have it on the day you tested. It doesn't really move you any further forward in terms of the choice to go to yoga. If your DD has it then you can contract it from her at any point.

Your safest bet is to continue daily LFTs and not do anything non essential inside until DDs 10 days is up. If you have not got any symptoms or a positive test by then you should be in the clear and can go to yoga with a clear conscience

Siameasy · 21/12/2021 10:41

You can go! Do a home test beforehand. I love the gym and if DD/DH had Covid I’d still go.
Morals are a personal matter, subjective.
There’s lots of things I think are immoral. Doesn’t mean they’re objectively wrong

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 21/12/2021 11:02

Immoral and objectively wrong are not the same thingHmm

Illegal and immoral are not the same thing but immoral and wrong are exactly the same thing in my book.
I try not to act in an immoral fashion.
If I feel something to be immoral I don't do it.

MissCruellaDeVil · 21/12/2021 11:05

I would go, I would take a lateral flow before the class and if it's negative all is good, there is no need to isolate if you are double/triple jabbed.

ReeseWitherfork · 21/12/2021 11:06

I think generally immoral means knowing/thinking something is wrong but not giving a fuck.

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 21/12/2021 11:07

I'm more of a gym person than a yoga person but I did have a phase of adding in yoga classes which I really enjoyed particularly for the destressing element but then lockdown came and I know what you mean about it's not the same at home because you are still in your stressful environment. I found myself pondering the fact I hadn't dusted in the corners lately rather than relaxing at the end of the class

I tried to fix it a bit by banning the kids from the room and making DH be in charge as he would have been if I was out and setting up the room as nicely as I could pushing furniture back, using cushions, books and blankets as props and putting the diffuser on with some nice scent. It did help a bit.

GiantHaystacks2021 · 21/12/2021 11:10

Please don't.
It's only yoga.
It's not essential.
Please don't put other people at risk.

LouScot · 21/12/2021 11:14

I'm genuinely surprised that so many of you would go (and reassured many wouldn't). Obviously in Scotland we've got different guidance but here it's household contacts isolate for 10 days regardless of vaccination status or PCR results and it genuinely wouldn't have occured to me to go anywhere if someone in my house had tested positive. Even over the past few months when things were relaxed we still had to isolate until a negative PCR test came back - and even the most anti establishment/lockdown/guidance people I know are doing there best to follow it.

SilverRingahBells · 21/12/2021 11:53

ImWhat you do need to remember in this situation is that omicron moves particularly fast. Previously you might take an LFT the morning before you were planning to meet up with people and be moderately confident that if it was negative then even if you were incubating Covid you weren't too infectious. Now you should plan to take it 30/15 minutes before you leave the house so you can read it at the last possible moment before you walk out of the door.

Siameasy · 21/12/2021 12:14

@SilverRingahBells

ImWhat you do need to remember in this situation is that omicron moves particularly fast. Previously you might take an LFT the morning before you were planning to meet up with people and be moderately confident that if it was negative then even if you were incubating Covid you weren't too infectious. Now you should plan to take it 30/15 minutes before you leave the house so you can read it at the last possible moment before you walk out of the door.
That still won’t be enough for some people OP could catch Covid walking from the car to the class via the reception. The law is clear; OP can go. I would go - it’s a matter of personal choice.
LittleGwyneth · 21/12/2021 12:20

It wouldn't be wrong of you to go, but personally I think I would skip it just in case, just for one week.

JellyOnAPlatewithicecream · 21/12/2021 12:54

Go. We've been putting our lives on hold for too long now, I've had enough.

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Itsnotdeep · 21/12/2021 14:24

I'm aware that this might not be a popular view on this thread, but I think that were this January, I would go. I don't want to be ruining people's Christmas. It's so rife here, and symptoms are so mild for so many people, that you can't know when you've got it or when you're at risk of getting it. And because it's so mild for most people, I really think that life has to go on. And now, I do need to go to the post office, and queue up with lots of other people.

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